Mon 29 Dec
|Sheffield
Solfège & Musical Sign Language (half session) (2 of 2)
Use musical sign language to place pitches in the body, helping you to get out of your head when sight-reading.
Time & Location
29 Dec 2025, 19:30 – 21:00
Sheffield, The Sorting Office, 846 Ecclesall Rd, Sheffield S11 8TP, UK
About the event
You do not need to have attended the first session to sign up to this one. Integrated in our normal Pop Chorus session will be a 45-min workshop on a modern version of solfège and the Curwen hand symbols. This a musicianship class, and is an opportunity to also learn some basic music theory.
Being the second session on this topic, we will be adding advanced symbols (such as chromatic notes), and playing pitch games, helping you to solidify your practice.
By identifying pitches with hand symbols, musicians are better able to get out of their heads and recall precise notes in a scale. The added advantage of this is that you no longer need to try and work out intervals between notes. You can simply spot the scale degree of the note (i.e. an 'A' in D Major is the fifth scale degree, or the dominant), sign the hand…
Tickets
General Admission
This ticket includes access to the rest of the Pop Chorus session, where you will be invited to learn a 3-part pop arrangement with the regular community singers
£15.00
+£0.38 ticket service fee
Total
£0.00